[4] While he was in this post, in early March 2011, Lekganyane resigned as SACP Provincial Secretary, saying that his relationship with the party had broken down.
[5] He ran on an informal slate aligned to Premier Mathale, who won election as ANC Provincial Chairperson at the same party conference.
[6] In order to take up the full-time ANC position, Lekganyane resigned from the Executive Council; he was replaced by Clifford Motsepe in March 2012.
[7] As Provincial Secretary, Lekganyane supported an unsuccessful bid by Kgalema Motlanthe to succeed Jacob Zuma as ANC President at the party's 53rd National Conference in December 2012.
[9][10] In the aftermath of the national conference, in March 2013, the national ANC leadership disbanded the Limpopo Provincial Executive Committee, with ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe saying that provincial leaders had displayed "totally un-ANC behaviour and institutionalised factional conduct".
He was named as part of a slate aligned to Dickson Masemola, who intended to contest for the party chairmanship.
The altercation took place on 5 June 2021 during an argument about the nomination of candidates to stand for the ANC in the 2021 local government elections; the complainant alleged that Lekganyane assaulted him, "grabbing me by my private parts", and saying "today I'm going to kill you".
[27] He was also appointed as a member of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal and as the head of the NEC's delegation to the party's provincial branch in the North West Province.
[27] In the next general election, held in May 2024, Lekganyane stood as an ANC candidate, ranked 15th on the party's national list.